R. Kyle Bocinsky

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

R. Kyle Bocinsky is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Kyle Bocinsky has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Paleontology, 9 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in R. Kyle Bocinsky's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 papers). R. Kyle Bocinsky is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 papers). R. Kyle Bocinsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. R. Kyle Bocinsky's co-authors include Timothy A. Kohler, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Stefani A. Crabtree, Mark D. Varien, Scott G. Ortman, Ziad Kobti, Sturt W. Manning, Keith Kintigh, Dylan M. Schwindt and G. Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

R. Kyle Bocinsky

37 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice

2020 166 citations Rafał M. Gutaker, Simon C. Groen et al. Nature Plants profile →
p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates

2022 51 citations Erick Robinson, R. Kyle Bocinsky et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Kyle Bocinsky United States	18	533	242	241	187	147	38	1.1k
Mark Robinson United Kingdom	18	379 0.7×	208 0.9×	118 0.5×	216 1.2×	155 1.1×	39	1.3k
James Conolly Canada	23	1.0k 1.9×	513 2.1×	194 0.8×	235 1.3×	91 0.6×	55	1.8k
Sean S. Downey United States	17	607 1.1×	404 1.7×	307 1.3×	241 1.3×	34 0.2×	30	1.4k
Jade d’Alpoim Guedes United States	20	767 1.4×	476 2.0×	314 1.3×	564 3.0×	278 1.9×	53	1.6k
Marc Vander Linden United Kingdom	19	892 1.7×	458 1.9×	192 0.8×	210 1.1×	45 0.3×	66	1.3k
Naomi F. Miller United States	26	1.2k 2.3×	641 2.6×	239 1.0×	286 1.5×	178 1.2×	87	1.9k
Jonas Gregório de Souza Brazil	17	268 0.5×	164 0.7×	138 0.6×	182 1.0×	210 1.4×	42	1.0k
Alessio Palmisano United Kingdom	19	709 1.3×	274 1.1×	434 1.8×	104 0.6×	33 0.2×	30	1.1k
Lynley A. Wallis Australia	16	418 0.8×	417 1.7×	321 1.3×	219 1.2×	145 1.0×	92	906
Carla Lancelotti Spain	17	638 1.2×	342 1.4×	241 1.0×	253 1.4×	181 1.2×	65	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. Kyle Bocinsky

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All Works

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Kohler, Timothy A., et al.. (2025). How Many People Lived in the Chaco Regional System, and Why It Matters. KIVA. 91(4). 361–391.

Hoylman, Zachary, Zachary A. Holden, R. Kyle Bocinsky, et al.. (2024). Optimizing Drought Assessment for Soil Moisture Deficits. Water Resources Research. 60(6). 7 indexed citations

Kohler, Timothy A., et al.. (2023). Wealth inequality in the prehispanic northern US Southwest: from Malthus to Tyche. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1883). 20220298–20220298. 6 indexed citations

Hoylman, Zachary, R. Kyle Bocinsky, & Kelsey Jencso. (2022). Drought assessment has been outpaced by climate change: empirical arguments for a paradigm shift. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2715–2715. 34 indexed citations

Scheffer, Marten, et al.. (2021). Loss of resilience preceded transformations of pre-Hispanic Pueblo societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(18). 34 indexed citations

Price, Michael Holton, José M. Capriles, Julie A. Hoggarth, et al.. (2021). End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates. Journal of Archaeological Science. 135. 105473–105473. 21 indexed citations

Alam, Ornob, Rafał M. Gutaker, Cheng‐Chieh Wu, et al.. (2021). Genome Analysis Traces Regional Dispersal of Rice in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(11). 4832–4846. 15 indexed citations

Gutaker, Rafał M., Simon C. Groen, Emily S. Bellis, et al.. (2020). Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice. Nature Plants. 6(5). 492–502. 166 indexed citations breakdown →

Robinson, Erick, et al.. (2020). Dendrochronological dates confirm a Late Prehistoric population decline in the American Southwest derived from radiocarbon dates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1816). 20190718–20190718. 16 indexed citations

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Bocinsky, R. Kyle. (2019). Functions to Automate Downloading Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources [R package FedData version 2.5.7]. 7 indexed citations

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Kohler, Timothy A., et al.. (2018). Paleodata for and from archaeology. Past Global Change Magazine. 26(2). 68–69. 1 indexed citations

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Marwick, Ben, C. Michael Barton, R. Kyle Bocinsky, et al.. (2017). Open Science in Archaeology. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 59 indexed citations

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Crabtree, Stefani A., et al.. (2017). HOW TO MAKE A POLITY (IN THE CENTRAL MESA VERDE REGION). American Antiquity. 82(1). 71–95. 28 indexed citations

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Schwindt, Dylan M., R. Kyle Bocinsky, Scott G. Ortman, et al.. (2016). The Social Consequences of Climate Change in the Central Mesa Verde Region. American Antiquity. 81(1). 74–96. 82 indexed citations

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Guedes, Jade d’Alpoim, Sturt W. Manning, & R. Kyle Bocinsky. (2016). A 5,500-Year Model Of Changing Crop Niches On The Tibetan Plateau. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Kohler, Timothy A. & R. Kyle Bocinsky. (2015). Compiled Tree-ring Dates from the Southwestern United States (Unrestricted). 2 indexed citations

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Jin, G., Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, & R. Kyle Bocinsky. (2015). The Impact of Climate on the Spread of Rice Agriculture to North-Eastern China: An Example from Shandong. 2 indexed citations

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Guedes, Jade d’Alpoim, G. Jin, & R. Kyle Bocinsky. (2015). The Impact of Climate on the Spread of Rice to North-Eastern China: A New Look at the Data from Shandong Province. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0130430–e0130430. 40 indexed citations

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Bocinsky, R. Kyle & Timothy A. Kohler. (2014). A 2,000-year reconstruction of the rain-fed maize agricultural niche in the US Southwest. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5618–5618. 73 indexed citations

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Crabtree, Stefani A., et al.. (2013). Simulating Social and Economic Specialization in Small-Scale Agricultural Societies. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 16(4). 11 indexed citations

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